The landfill site
AN independent report agreed with Suffolk Police’s conclusion that Corrie’s remains lie in a 120 square metre landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire - 30 miles.
Detectives believe the most likely scenario is that the gunner based at nearby RAF Honington got into a recycling bin that was scooped up by a Biffa lorry from a horseshoe-shaped storage area and taken to the landfill site.
Officers last year sifted through nearly 10,000 tons of rubbish during 27 weeks of searching the site but found no sign of his body.
However, police yesterday admitted that the two separate searches may have been in the wrong area of the 120-acre site.
Suffolk Police said: “The records relied upon are not comprehensive and lack the detail required to identify precise search areas. Investigative inquiries identified the landfill site areas where Corrie was most likely to be.
“This does not rule out the possibility of him being elsewhere within that site or indeed at another landfill site.
“The areas where Corrie could be now, are vast, many times bigger than the area of landfill already searched.
“It would take years to complete.
“The environmental and legal impact of digging up such deep and wide areas of landfill is significant and prohibitive.”